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Our insight into how individuals make decisions is founded on many years of psychological research overlaid with business expertise and proven application. Our mission is to provide information that solves problems and answers questions.

Some of the Decision Strategy products offered by Sommer Consulting include:

Persuasive Mapping

Explores the mindset of the targeted audience to identify the conscious and unconscious motivations driving the decision-making strategy, delivered in a custom-designed report to suit a vast array of research needs.

Identifies points of leverage within the complex decision strategies of targeted audience segments to find the aspects that make the persuasive difference for our clients' business objectives.

Procedural Analysis

Analyzes the steps that are taken before a customer agrees to use a specific product.

Identifies how customers want to be approached, what information they want to be given, how they want to receive it, and what they will do with it once they have it, allowing our clients to gain a complete understanding of the methods that provide the greatest persuasive impact, and the reasons why.

Emotional Mapping

Captures the emotions expressed by the target audience through their words, as well as their breaths, pauses, and tones.

Examines how emotions impact and affect the decision strategy of the target audience and provides clients with a tangible profile of their customers' emotions that can be applied to marketing plans and ad copy.



Our experience in language stems from important research that links the psychology of a decision strategy with the language that represents it. Our trained linguistic experts, as well as psychologists, forge the persuasive connection between decision strategy and language, eliciting the motivations that make a marketing difference.

Some of the Messaging products offered by Sommer Consulting include:

Sales Scripting

Couples over 25 years of sales experience with linguistic and behavioral experts on staff to construct sales scripts, detail aids, and ad copy that resonate with the target audience in a way that changes their behavior.

Provides the right questions and answers for the desired impact on the targeted audience, in the form and style that will best meet their needs.

Ad Analysis

Provides an in-depth analysis of advertisements to identify how the language structure and sequence best attracts the target audience desired, as well as how successfully the advertisement resonates with the target audience's decision strategy.

Answers the question: "What are my advertisements really portraying, and how can I change them to hone in on the audience that I want?"

*Please contact Sommer Consulting for a complete and detailed list of all of our product offerings. We look forward to showing you how we may be able to assist you in your marketing endeavors.



 

Television entertains us with detectives such as Lt. Columbo and Gus Grissom of CSI. These shows routinely demonstrate a basic fact: No behavior of any kind occurs unless there are three ingredients:

  • Motive
  • Opportunity
  • Means

If detectives have these three sets of facts they catch bad guys. If marketers...

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